[Janis N.]

myturn2raise, you're being a hypocrite and your argument about preserving fish is a false one that you've artificially invented (though you may have deluded yourself into believing it by now).

The fact that you have the stomach to play the brain-dead version of poker that shortstacking is without puking obviously gives you a competitive advantage. I've tried once and could not believe how lame and boring it was.

But shortstackers make the games less fun for everyone else (including the fish who'd rather see flops than call your all-ins all the time).

Banning shortstacking would not change the rate at which fish go broke.

There will always be super-turbo SNGs for people like you who are too lazy to play deep-stack; just remember to fold the first few orbits.

And QFT:
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fish generally don't give a [censored] how big the stacks they're facing are....I don't see your point at all

Also if it's not clear, shorstacks ruin the games because they alter the whole way the game is played, turning it from a fun strategic game into a mindless preflop game. I definitely think they're the main reason why the big games on FT have dried up. Everytime a non-HU game forms 2 or 3 shortstacks quickly join and then the game becomes mindless, boring, and a waste of time for good players, so they leave. I applaud Stars and DN for taking this first step and hopefully it'll trickle down to all limits.

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